
In August 1999, Fitrah Alamsyah died of an overdose of illegal drugs followed by Sandy Handoko who died in October 2000. The success they have achieved cannot be separated from an unexpected event. This album was awarded as the Best AMI Award 2002 Rock Group and 2002 Gen-B, Jamrud still dominated the recording industry and the show industry with the most expensive honorariums. The success of Ningrat's album made Log Zhelebour bring Jamrud recordings at Studios 301 in Sydney, Australia and released the album Sydney 090102 (2002) by recording quite spectacular sales more than 1,4 millions copies with hits from "Waktuku Mandi" and "Selamat Ulang Tahun" which are still popular and sung everyone celebrates birthdays. Ningrat's album recorded history by winning 5 AMI Award 2000 awards for the rock group. The culmination of Jamrud's commercial success is the album Ningrat (2000) which recorded sales of two million pieces in Indonesia with the popularity of the singles "Surti-Tejo" and "Pelangi di Matamu" in Indonesia. The album was very popular among the young generation of Indonesia at that time, especially through the song "Berakit-rakit" and "Terima Kasih", so it sold up to touch the number 800 thousand pieces, a very remarkable achievement for the sale of rock music albums in Indonesia at that time, award as the Best AMI Award 1999 Rock Group. Big profits from the sale of Emerald albums continued until they released Terima Kasih (1998). Their success continued with their second album, Putri (1997), whose sales figure reached 300 thousand pieces. The sale of Jamrud's first album, Nekad (1996), achieved sales of 150 thousand in a short time. Jamrud matured music and appearance under the care of the Log Zhelebour record label. The reason the name Jamrock is changed to Jamrud because it avoids problems in the future and feels more pleasant to hear. With their entry into Log's record label, Jamrock's name was changed to Jamrud. Jamrock then got a contract for recording and joined Log's record label, Logiss Records. They offered the demo to the Log Zhelebour record label (commonly called Log) which gave a warm welcome. Satisfied with carrying other people's songs, in 1995, Azis, Ricky, Krisyanto, Fitrah and Sandy began writing their own song material and recording their demos. Krisyanto himself won the title of Best Rock Vocalist in the festival rock Bandung. Their prestige increased when Krisyanto, Fitrah Alamsyah (guitar) and Sandhy Handoko (drums) joined Jamrock. At that time they mostly featured songs from other rock music groups that already had names. Jamrock are a music group that carries rock music that is respected around the Bandung area. The Jamrock formation was finally formed which became popularly known by fans of the '90s, Azis (lead guitar), Ricky (bass), Krisyanto (vocals), Fitrah Alamsyah (guitar), and Sandy Handoko (drums). 1.6 Best Selling Rock Music Albums in Historyīefore becoming Jamrud, the initial formation of Jamrock consisted of Azis MS ( guitars), Ricky Teddy ( bass), Agus ( drums), and Oppi ( vocals), besides them, Budhy Haryono the former GIGI drummer had also been a member of the Jamrock band.Īs of 2010, Jamrud have sold more than 5 million albums in Indonesia. The band have also won several awards from the Anugerah Musik Indonesia (Indonesian Music Awards). Throughout their career, most of Jamrud's studio albums have been certified platinum in Indonesia. Then, the band changed their name to Jamrud and released their debut album, Nekad, in 1996. In 1996, they met their future record producer, Log Zhelebour, who offered them contract for recording music album. After vocalist Krisyanto, guitarist Fitrah Alamsyah and drummer Sandy Handoko joined the band, they performed in several rock festivals in Bandung started gaining fame in Indonesian music society. Between 19, there were several personnel changes in the band. In 1989, guitarist Azis Mangasi Siagian, bassist Ricky Teddy, vocalist Oppi, and drummer Agus formed a band called Jam Rock. Their fourth studio album, Ningrat (2000), has sold 2 million copies in Indonesia only, this making it the #7 highest selling album in Indonesia as well as the fourth best selling rock album in Indonesia. They are notable as one of the most successful rock bands which known to bring rock music as popular music in Indonesia in the 1990s. Jamrud are an Indonesian Rock & Heavy metal band from Cimahi, West Java, Indonesia. Nu metal, Heavy metal, thrash metal, Metalcore, Hard rock, Pop rock
